Vocabulary
Geography
Government
Culture
Miscellaneous
100
The Minoans lived on this island.
What is Crete?
100
A high rocky hill where early people built cities; where the Parthenon was built.
What is an acropolis?
100
In ancient Greece, a city with its own traditions and government.
What is a city-state?
100
Sacred site or person used to consult with the gods; can predict future happenings.
What is an oracle?
100
The people who could not participate in the early Athenian democracy.
Who are women, slaves, and foreigners?
200
A long poem that tells a story
What is an epic?
200
An area of land almost completely surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
200
Member of a rich and powerful family who has the power to rule.
What is an aristocrat?
200
Temple built to honor Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
200
Someone or something who lives forever.
What is immortal?
300
Mainland Greece is very ________________ and this led to _____________________ communities. The city-states developed separate cultures.
What is mountainous and isolated?
300
In geographical terms, Greece is a large ________.
What is a peninsula?
300
He reformed the laws and began the first democracy in Greece.
Who is Solon?
300
Homer's poem the Iliad tells the story of the war between the _____________ and the ________________.
What are the Greeks and the Trojans?
300
The period of warfare, disorder, poverty, and lack of writing and trade in ancient Greece.
What is the Dark Age of Greece?
400
Because of the location on the Agean and the Mediterranean Seas, the Greeks became good ______ and _______.
What are sailors and traders?
400
This is where the Minotaur lived. (not the name of the island)
What is a labyrinth or maze?
400
A ruler who takes power by force and often rules as a dictator.
What is a tyrant?
400
Payments made by a less powerful city-state to a more powerful city-state.
What is tribute?
400
The ancient Olympic Games were held to honor ______, and the were held every ____________ years.
What is Zeus and 4?
500
The location of the city-state of Troy and current day Turkey.
What is Asia Minor?
500
Greece's physical geography is made up of _____________, _______________, and ____________________.
What is mountains, islands, peninsulas?
500
System of government in which the people rule by participating in the government.
What is a democracy?
500
Philosophers believed they could understand the world around them by using _____________.
What is reason?
500
The many achievements of ancient Greece were important because the strongly shaped _____________ civilization.
What is western?
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